““You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing, or what it is that you are longing for, but something in you calls out to be aware. You have become parched in the desert of apathy, and thirst for the Bacchic springs forever out of your reach. And while your highest aspects thirst for freedom, so too your basest roots thrust outwards and strangle the hopes—””
![“It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house—the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.” quote by Susanna Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/391/susanna-clarke-1559_1815_it-ashfair-house-was-an-old-fashioned-ho_1405068.jpg)
